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<h1>Welcome to XORP</h1>

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XORP is the industry's only extensible open source routing platform.
XORP provides a fully featured platform that implements IPv4 and IPv6 routing
protocols and a unified platform to configure them.  It is the only
open source platform to offer integrated multicast capability.  XORP's
modular architecture allows rapid introduction of new protocols,
features and functionality, including support for custom hardware and
software forwarding.
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<h2><a name="message">Message to the Community</a></h2>

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January 11, 2012:<br>
XORP 1.8.5 is Released

  <ul>
    <li>Fix OSPF bug that caused very long join times on larger
        systems.</li>

    <li>Compile in built-information to let user know exact version
        for any particular build.</li>

    <li>Optimize logging (should be faster at runtime, slightly larger
        binary size.)</li>

    <li>Fix compile and some other bugs on netbsd.</li>

    <li>Fix multicast over GRE tunnels (and other GRE tunnel bugs).</li>

    <li>Fix ARM platform issues related to raw sockets.</li>

    <li>Fix compile on Ubuntu 11.10.</li>

    <li>A more detailed change list list is in Release Notes
       available at <a href="releases/1.8.5/docs/RELEASE_NOTES">releases/1.8.5/docs/RELEASE_NOTES</a>
   </li>
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<p>
Thank you very much for your interest and continued participation
in the XORP open networking platform project. We appreciate
the help and support the community has shown over the years.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
<a href="mailto:xorp-users@xorp.org">xorp-users@xorp.org</a>.
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--The XORP Team<br/>
<small>September, 2011</small>
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<h2>Ongoing Development</h2>
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Optimize Xorp for use on Windows
(still slow with large OSPF networks...more
work remains).
<br>
Get snapshots or check out a live source tree
on <a href="http://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct">github</a>.
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<h2>Latest Release: 1.8.5</h2>

<p>
XORP is available for download as a
<a href="livecd.html">Live CD</a> or as
<a href="http://github.com/greearb/xorp.ct/downloads">source code</a>.
See the <a href="releases/current/docs/RELEASE_NOTES">release notes</a>
for information about changes between releases.
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<h2>Paid XORP Support</h2>

<p>
XORP is released under the GPL and free to use.
If you wish to purchase official support,
new XORP features and expedited bug fixes, please contact:<br>
<a href="http://www.candelatech.com/">Candela Technologies</a>.
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<h2>Feedback</h2>

<p>If you are using XORP we would like to hear from you. How
are you using XORP? Which protocols are you using? What applications has
XORP enabled?  What new features would you like to see? Please email
xorp-users@xorp.org.

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